Buck-Ogre Rum

Full Item Description
A mellow and especially smooth rum imported from the savage Ogres of the Great Woses.

History
Buck-Ogre rum is distilled from sugar cane and molasses cut in the wilds of the Great Woses. The Ogres, while a nasty and brutish race have discovered the art of distilling, with rum and cane ale being popular drinks there. While the cane ale is sour enough to earn the appelation of Rot Gut, the rum is a different matter.

Buck-Ogre rum commands a healthy price on the open market since acquiring it is difficult. The Ogres can just as likely trade with the merchants as bash them over the head and take them home for the cook pots. No honor among Ogres, as the expression goes.

Inside the Barrel
There is a terrible secret contained in each 300 liter barrel of Buck-Ogre rum. The ogres have a secret ingredient when they make their special batches and that is to stuff a live and naked human into the barrel before sealing it. The ogres say this gives the rum a special taste and they find it amusing that the humans are willing to trade for the rum.

The Rum Merchants are some of the most callous and heartless folk in all of Falhath as they will supply the ogres with victims for the rum barrels, as well as buying, selling, and trading the rum knowing how it is made.

Plot Hooks
Hooked on the Taste - The PCs get a chance at some Buck-Ogre Rum and discover they like it. tunrabout comes when they decided to go and trade for it themselves and run afoul of A. the ogres, B. the Rum Merchants Guild, C. the conscience when they discover the secret.

40 men all lost at sea - The PCs are contracted by the Rum Merchant’s Guild to serve as muscle for protecting a trade band. Can the PCs watch as humans are traded for barrels of rum and other goods? This can be a land or a sea voyage.

I can’t make this up!
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Maybe there are special Ogre Distilleries that compete with each other, with each one preferring a different type of human to give their Rum that "special" flavor. Might make for some interesting competition.

And you know, this adds quite some color to the otherwise boring ogres - so they are able to take and even adapt some technology - undoubtly found in some raid (or did they discover it themselves?). People could even avoid being eaten by claiming to be skilled distillers - and become an item for sale between the ogres clans. ;)

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